Internal Alarm Clock a time management tool?
Some
of us are blessed with
an internal alarm clock. A little voice
that wakes
you up two minutes
before your alarm
goes off. This may be
a blessing if
that little voice also
alerts you ten minutes before your sons soccer game
or before
the school
bell rings. However
I dont have
that blessing.
Of
course I have the
internal ability to wake up 30 minutes BEFORE I have to wake up after only
five hours of sleep. Unfortunately that alarm doesnt seem to carry over into the
waking hours. A thirty minute heads up would be handy.
Not having that constant heads up, instead, I wear the super mom cape
as I leap over shoes, bags
and the cat in a flurry of movement. Knowing full well that the school
bell is going to ring in ten minutes
and the drive is a minimum of 11 minutes
and three seconds if no one is in the cross walk
and that light isnt red.
Of course, I will have to drive
laps to locate a place I can stop to let my
son in. All the parking spots are taken by those nannies with
an internal clock.
I thought I
had the alarm clock before I had children. As a professional Nanny I was never late for a soccer
game, a music lesson, or birthday party. It turns out there are two types of internal alarm clocks.
The one reserved for those of us who dont have children
under the age of 18. This one allows you to roll out of bed just before your alarm goes off after a night of
8 hours of
restful sleep.
Then theres the other alarm clock. The one
called the mom alarm clock. This internal alarm wakes you up
at three minutes before the baby needs to be fed, or two minutes before your toddler wets the bed, or 8 minutes before your five year old wakes up with growing pains.
Sometimes these alarms are all in the same night. The mom alarm clock results in a pure hatred of the real alarm clock that wakes you up at
7 am as the children are peacefully sleeping telling you to start your day.
Luckily I have some other time
management tips under my cape to keep
me on time and organized as a mother. Despite the internal mom alarm clock working against me at night, my children make it to their soccer games and birthday parties, usually with the present and cleats in the bag. Was that the blue bag or the red one?
Kay McFarlane is the designer of the printable mom planner and owner of
http://OrganizedFamilies.com. Her time management
skills and humor help her make through each week as the busy mom of three children, contractor, student, and business owner. That same humors and skills are shared each week at her website for busy moms.